I probably should have give you a comment about your fic months ago, but I got sidetracked and you know how it is... ^^;
Anyways, I really enjoyed this ficlet. I'm not sure who I feel more sorry for though, Tezuka or Echizen. While on the one hand, you have the angst of Echizen never learning the burning love that is Japanese competitve tennis, but on the other you have Tezuka who's been so easily surpassed and left behind. Tezuka kind of reminds me of what it would have been like for waya and the other insei if Hikaru let Sai play and just went on by crushing people left and right.
I'm also intrigued by the why Echizen would be coming to Seigaku in High schoool instead of middle school. Did Ryuuzaki-sensei transfer to the high school, so Nanjiroh didn't feel the need to send Ochibi back to Japan? Did Echizen beat his father and decide to play in the states?
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Date: 2006-04-28 03:29 pm (UTC)Anyways, I really enjoyed this ficlet. I'm not sure who I feel more sorry for though, Tezuka or Echizen. While on the one hand, you have the angst of Echizen never learning the burning love that is Japanese competitve tennis, but on the other you have Tezuka who's been so easily surpassed and left behind. Tezuka kind of reminds me of what it would have been like for waya and the other insei if Hikaru let Sai play and just went on by crushing people left and right.
I'm also intrigued by the why Echizen would be coming to Seigaku in High schoool instead of middle school. Did Ryuuzaki-sensei transfer to the high school, so Nanjiroh didn't feel the need to send Ochibi back to Japan? Did Echizen beat his father and decide to play in the states?